By Manik Banerjee The Associated Press KOLKATA, India A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing homes and sending panicked residents running. As the frightened elephant ran amok, trampling parked cars and motorbikes, crowds of people gathered to watch from balconies and roof tops. Some followed […]
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By John-Thor Dahlburg And Robert Burns The Associated Press BRUSSELS NATO defence ministers should approve plans Wednesday for increasing NATO’s forward presence in Eastern Europe to deter Russia, and discuss what the alliance might do to stanch the ongoing flow of migrants into Europe, the organization’s secretary-general said. “Today and […]
By Janie Har The Associated Press San Francisco nuns who serve the homeless are in danger of getting kicked out of their home after a rent hike of more than 50 per cent, another example of the struggle to balance soaring living costs in a booming economy. The sisters of […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press Recently, I went to France to test drive some porcelain cookware. I wanted to see how it handled my favourite cooking method ……. grilling! For inspiration, I headed to the famed indoor food market, Les Halles de Lyon-Paul Bocuse. The meat was displayed like […]
By Michelle Locke The Associated Press Nothing pairs quite so well with a midwinter day as an herb-crusted slab of meat roasting alongside a few root vegetables. And to toast that roast you’ll want a rich, flavourful wine that can stand up to the snappiest of cold snaps. Here, experts […]
By Matthias Schrader And Kirsten Grieshaber The Associated Press BAD AIBLING, Germany Two commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday morning in a remote area in southern Germany, killing at least nine people and injuring some 150, some of whom had to be cut out of the wreckage and transported across a […]
By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO Minutes after North Korea launched its rocket, South Korea’s navy detected a rain of fragments falling into the sea and then a sooner-than-expected disappearance of the rocket from their radar, suggesting a possible failure. News outlets working in real time jumped on the […]
By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI Scientists are analyzing a small blue object that plummeted from the sky and killed a man in southern India, after authorities said it was a meteorite. The object slammed into the ground at an engineering college over the weekend, shattering a water […]
By Joan Lowy The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration says there are now more registered drone operators in the U.S. than there are licensed pilots. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a legal forum on Monday that the agency passed the milestone last week when it topped 325,000 registered […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach. Repulsive as they may be, roaches have the remarkable ability to squish their bodies down to one quarter their normal size, yet still scamper at lightning […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press In the world of beef roasts, marbling is king. The internal automatic basting power of tiny fat pockets melting into the meat is amazing. So what are the options for roasting healthier, leaner cuts of meat? There’s the pork tenderloin, which is the leanest […]
By Foster Klug And Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of The U.N. Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket that world leaders denounced as a banned test of dangerous ballistic missile technology and another “intolerable provocation.” The U.N.’s most powerful […]
